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This month’s guests…

EROL ALKAN

Scion set this up during WMC and told me I’d have to be in the “radio room” at like 10:30 am to interview Erol. If you’ve ever been to WMC you know that that is an un-godly hour. I dragged my self out of bed, through on my sunglasses and headed downstairs to what I thought was a radio interview. When I get to the room The Rub dudes are all sitting there bright-eyed & bushy tailed surrounded by video cameras. When I say “oh shit this is a video interview?” The whole room erupts in laughter (like I’m the retard for wanting to be asleep). Luckily Erol ended up postponing the interview till the afternoon, Nice!

For some reason I was really nervous about doing this interview and I was just walking around the Raleigh party all day asking people what they thought I should ask the world’s coolest DJ. Luckily Alkan-Fan Club member #1, Greg from the Acid Girls was down to come help me. The result? Erol’s the ultimate homie. We asked him about everything except Trash. He let us in on production secrets for bands and beats, how he manages to blow up with out going pop and any other super-cool topics we could come up with (quite heavy shit). Wish I had his dj set recorded from that day, pretty fucking radical dude!

DJ SCRATCH

Scratch is all business (must have learned it from EPMD), he even showed up in a designer suit to Plan B in the middle of the day to interview. He had just installed Serato on a new laptop and it wasn’t working with the 57. I told him it was probably because his version was too new and that I had the older version on my jump drive. So I gave him and Prince Paul the drive to take it off and all of a sudden the two of them start bugging like “yo what the fuck is this virus shit?!!” I had forgotten that I named my drive “Jemz Virus.” When I explained it to the two of them the comedy was lost. All I remember was Scratch asking “Why would you do that?” and Paul like “That’s really weird yo!” It’s funny as a kid I use to think meeting Prince Paul was all I needed to do, instead he likes dudes like Paul Barman and thinks I’m “weird.” Oh well.

The interview was dope. Did you know he made the Rampage beat on a 8 sec sampler and 4-track? He gets into more shit like that, as well as early ‘80s roller rink circuit stories, interesting stuff. Plus he gave us the ill EPMD best of set that’s perfect for the summertime.

THE ARAB PARROT

The Parrot lives around the corner from where we record so he came thru to chill too… He played some funny shit but got all clammy on the mic.

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